Larry Taunton doesn't beat around the bush. In "The Grace Effect," he goes straight for the jugular.

And if the truth were ever hard to swallow, it's now - in the wake of a century dominated by men who disregarded the very cornerstone of Western civilLarry Taunton doesn't beat around the bush. In "The Grace Effect," he goes straight for the jugular.

And if the truth were ever hard to swallow, it's now - in the wake of a century dominated by men who disregarded the very cornerstone of Western civilization: Christianity. The results were absolutely devastating.

And we've nearly forgotten it all, as a number of influential academics is naively floating the bogus notion that Christianity is an irrational relic of the past and should be eradicated from public life. But Larry Taunton, as a historian, is not about to let that happen.

For a firsthand account of what life really looks like in a world without Christianity, Taunton takes you on an irreverent romp through the rubble of secularist thinking as he tells of his family's adoption of a precious Ukrainian orphan girl: Sasha. And in that world, Sasha's life is deemed far from precious.

Yet Sasha's hope is irrepressible and her story magnificent. Her resilience and triumph over the world of the godless is a testimony to the one and only thing that can trump an entire century of corruption - grace.

This book will make you furious. This book will make you cheer. This book is a wake-up call. And it's most powerful because it isn't a theory - it's the story of a real life. A life that shouldn't be ignored. A life that grace didn't ignore....more